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observed his expertise from the porch of a cottage where I then lived at little River Farm.
This was a fine vantage point: I’d first see the fox trying to outfox OCIfs famed red ringneck hounds. Here’d come the fox, there’d go the hounds. Soon, there was Poe. Finally, as I stood rapt on the porch, the elegantly mounted and impeccably turned out field would appear.
This became my favorite way to watch a hunt, as opposed to the mounted close-up with its never-changing look at the tail of the horse ahead.
Though Poe “retired” from OCH in the early 1990s, at the age of 70, the insight and generosity of the late George Ohrstrom ensured that Poe didn’t stay retired for long. Ohrstrom reactivated the Bath County Hounds near Warm Springs with Poe at the helm.
By keeping Poe in the saddle with a horn in his hand, I feel Ohrstrom preserved this national treasure.
I count among my fondest hunting memories one sparkling winter weekend when the hunting gods smiled on me and I was invited to ride behind Poe at Ohrstrom’s Fassifem Farm.
But the sweetest nectar of all, as I dodder along in my twilight years of hunting, are the days I spend riding with Poe
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